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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Features and Capabilities:

* Painting
- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns

* System
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time



* Advanced Manipulation
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection and more...

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.15:

- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plug-in
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 --libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian

Download: Gimp 2.2.15
Link: Gimp Home Page
View: GIMPshop (Adobe Photoshop clone)